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For the week of Wednesday 4 March 2015 KaliSara and RevKess attempted to explain some of the murkiness that is in the world today. They may not have succeeded in anything other than shedding some of their own perspectives on the issues they discussed, but they hope that the listener gains some kind of an understanding of those issues.

Topics

Netanyahu before Congress: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his third appearance before a joint session of Congress in the United States. He was invited to speak before Congress by Speaker of the House John Boehner, bypassing the traditional invitation source of the White House and the Office of the President. You can watch the video of his speech through the New York Times YouTube channel and read the transcript on the Washington Post.

Hillary Clinton’s private email: The House Benghazi Panel is questioning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email address to correspond with staffers, elected officials, and other politicians during her time in that office. Some question if she handed over print outs of all her official and work related emails when she left that cabinet post as well as if all official correspondence sent to government email addresses were indeed backed up on official servers. The Wall Street Journal has coverage. Jacob Gershman takes a legal view on the issue on the WSJ Law Blog.

AIDS – gorilla connection, abstinence: A recently published study indicates that 50% or more of the lineages of HIV-1 can be linked to the consumption of gorilla bushmeat in Africa and then transmitted through sex. A cost-benefit analysis study by Stanford Medical School student Nathan Lo shows that a ten year $1.3 billion dollar program to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa through abstinence and fidelity classes has been a failure, showing no “measurably change sexual behavior and was largely wasted.”

What are our world leaders really trying to do?

KaliSara and RevKess do not currently have any links for this topics. There are numerous opinions out there on what various leaders want to do. Both hosts agree that many political and world leaders say they have good intentions, and many of them truly do, but that many of those same leaders are also very human – self serving.

Next week’s edition of PWN will address this topic in a vague manner as the hosts discuss what, in the United States, religious and secular non-profits can and cannot do or say in regards to politics. Campaign season is starting for the Oval Office and other seats in federal, state, and local governments.

MUSIC

Damh the Bard – Pagan Ways – Cauldron Born

Sharon Knight – Song of the Sea – Song of the Sea Sharon Knight is conducting an IndieGoGo campaign to support her newest musical project, Portals, which will include a CD, a music video and an art book. You can learn more about her campaign at www.SharonKnightPortals.net.

(Editor’s note: We are playing a little catch up with play lists. We apologise for the delays.) The Autumnal Equinox, Mabon, has arrived. The day before the celestial event Murf, *K8, and Phil put this show together for your listening enjoyment.

The picture to the left should be explained. Murf and Phil have been doing the show together for nearly six years. *K8 is the newest addition to the Mess. Often times Phil and Murf find themselves thinking along the same lines for show ideas, tracks to play, sometimes even saying the same things in unison. Sometimes these incidences scare *K8. This particular picture was taken after Phil commented to Murf that on his way into the studio he was thinking that some Lindie Lila would be great for the show, Murf had picked a Lindie Lila track for the show! And then they both spelled something out for *K8 in stereo. After which Phil said to her, “After five years with Murf, you too will starting thinking like us.” Thus, she hid inside her shirt. Going “Turtle” as she called it.

Coming up on 7 October, a Tuesday, Sharon Knight will be performing in Lincoln, NE at the historic Ferguson House. The same location at which SJ Tucker and Betsy Tinney recently appeared. On Sunday 5 October the crew of the Mess will be airing an interview that Phil recorded with Sharon on Wednesday 24 September.

Father’s Day on the Mess was a fun and sometimes confusing mess. The Mama Dragon had two master discs to play from, so Phil found himself bouncing back and forth between the two. Along with those two masters was the collection of new age music for the first half hour and a variety of other selections from the KZUM stacks and the random CDs all three brought with them. The below playlist is courtesy the efforts of *K8, Phil has made any minor corrections that were needed.

Wytches’ Chant ’98 – Inkubus Sukkubus – Away with the Fairies

The Dreamer – Peter Calandra – Inner Circle

Heartstrings – Matt & Rebecca Stuart – Minstrel Streams

Sunrise to Sunset – Jennifer DeFrayne – By a Wire

Wondering – John Luttrell – The Dream Exchange

Paso Doble – Bob Ardern – Craftsman

Kaleidoscope – Lisa Hilton – Kaleidoscope

Lord Fenugreek – Sharon Knight – Incantation

Waltzing with Bears/the Neat thing about my Father was… – Rosalie Sorrels – What does it mean to love?

He’s a pretty good man, if you ask me – Buffy Sainte-Marie – Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie

My Dad – Ray Stevens – All Time Hits

Dad’s Got that Look – John McCutcheon – Family Garden

Talkin’ to the Wrong Man – Eddie Blazonczyk’s (Sr. & Jr.) Versatones – Music Music Music

Man with the Weird Beard – Heather Bishop – Belly Button

Hymn to Herne – SJ Tucker – Blessings

Some Fathers Have Gone to Glory – Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt –

Alester’s Wake – Haze – Book of Shadows

Brothers Fallen – Saor Patrol and the Dolmen – Crann Tara

Cernunnos – Faith and the Muse – Shoumei

What’s up yours – Barleyjuice – The Barleyjuice Collection

Remember to tune in live every Sunday morning at 9am Central for two hours of New Age and Pagan music brought to by the hosts of Murphy’s Magic Mess: Nadine “Mama Dragon” Murphy, *K8 Smith, and “Rev. Moonbeam” Phil Kessler. Listen on the website for KZUM, on the radio (in the Lincoln, NE area) at 89.3FM, or using your favorite mobile listening app (like TuneIn). You can find the show on Facebook where the hosts share a rough-draft playlist immediately after each show and links to videos and Pagan news throughout the week.

It is that time of year again, time for KZUM’s Spring pledge drive. Even though you are seeing this after the pledge drive has ended, it is not too late to make your donation to KZUM-Hd community radio. You can go online to www.kzum.org and click on the Donate button or call the station during business hours at 402-474-5086 and make your pledge that way. KZUM is accepting donations year round, not just during their pledge drives.

We’d like to take a moment now to thank all our donors, all those who either renewed their membership or became members for the first time. We do this for you! Donations to KZUM are tax deductible.

Ganesh Mantra #2 – Larisa Stow – Reaching In

Heaven, Human, Earth – Yang Ying – Elixir

Where I Began – Vin Downes – unlike the stars

Songbird in the Morning – Larken Lyre – Extraordinary Voyage

My Dearest Someone – Jeremy Weinglass – Choose Love

For the Love of All Who Gather/Floor of Heaven – Betsy Tinney – Release the Cello!

2013 is drawing to close, and has already done so here on Murphy’s Magic Mess. Sadly, *K8 was not in studio with us this morning. She was off celebrating the winter holidays with her family. But, while the *K8’s away….. Murf and Phil had a blast and infused the latter portion of the show with a great collection of songs about drinking. See the whole list of music below (and please, if you spot an error, let us know so we can fix it!).

You can find much of the music from the second half of the show for free download thanks to Pandora Celtica, SJ Tucker, Sharon Knight and dozens more wonderful musicians who got together and decided to give their fans 79 tracks of music as a holiday gift. This free download is available through Valentine’s Day 2014. We’d suggest that you download each track individually. May be time-consuming, but definitely a lot less time than it takes to download them all as a ZIP file. (Phil tried twice and both times the file came up as empty.) Here’s the download page.

Music from the Mess

Buffy Sainte-Marie – God is Alive, Magic is Afoot – Up Where We Belong

Forrest Smithson – Dreaming I (radio edit) – Dreaming Time

Akasa – Return to Our Innocence – Portal

Ricky Kej – Longing – Shanti Orchestra

God of Drum – Donnar, Norse – Get Tribal

Betsy Tinney – Light Heart – Release the Cello!

Andre Feriante – Sweet Nadine IV – Novella, Ukulele Mosaique

Cheshire Moon – Snow White, Red Road – Crowes & Consequences

Alexander James Adams – Winter Tide – Winter Tide

Burning Sky – Out from the Darkness – Enter the Earth

Annbjorn Lien – January – Baba Yaga

Cynthia McQuillin – Darkness – Witches Dance

God of Drum – Loucetious, Gaelic – Get Tribal

Corvus Corax, – Gimli – Gimli

Tuatha Dea – Bagabi – Kith & Kin

The Bringers – Banish Misfortune – Ramblers & Rovers

Frank Remar & His Orchestra – Clydesdale Polka –

Brobdignagian Bards – Jedi Drinking Song – Brobdignagian Fairy Tales

Coven XIII – DRINK – Live

Tom Smith – The Cthulhu Colada Song – In Concert: ConTemporal 2013

Talis Kimberley – Xlibris – About Damn Time

Professor Elemental – Cup of Brown Joy – Rebel Without Applause

Whiskey Bards – Holiday Cheers – The Knight at the Inn

Bob Rivers – Carol of the Bartenders – Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire

It was another one of those lovely tracking weeks at KZUM. Not that big of a deal, after having done it for so long. Still a bit of a headache as we have to get start and finish times, record labels and the like. Oh, well. Makes it a bit more of a challenge and quite educational.

Phil cut’n’pasted the Artist, Track, and CD Title frames from the spread sheet he used, so things look a little different. We hope that you can still figure everything out okay. The format is the same as usual, just not numbered.

Murf, *K8 and Phil bring you two hours of new age and Pagan music every Sunday morning on KZUM in Lincoln, NE from 9am to 11am.

This week seemed to be a little strange with the studio equipment. Players not firing, CDs stopping after only 20 seconds of play. Mercury has gone direct, so it wasn’t an astrological incident. No, we discovered the reason when Murf told us what she had lined up on her master disc for the second hour. Scroll down through the play list and surely you will see what was up, too.

Thankfully, Murf always seems to have Dale Bacon’s response to Kenny Klein ready to go, but sometimes Dale’s spirit does like to show his displeasure over the song.

If you were listening or have seen the playlist on our Facebook page, you will note that some corrections to the playlist have been made. There was at least one case of mistaken identity and some typos in the Facebook posting. If you find any errors in this posting, please let us know so we can correct them.